Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Enjoy your garden through the cold months while laying the groundwork for spring
Use potato beds to plant for spring colour and summer flavour
If we have learned anything, it’s a new appreciation for traditional propagating skills
From peas to radishes, spuds to spinach, these will give you a harvest in no time
Itching to get going in the kitchen garden or allotment? Here’s a handful of crops to start growing now
It may be cold and muddy but there’s pruning, planting and planning to be done
Frilly flowers, tasty potatoes and onions worth waiting for can all be grown from seed
Stop using pesticides, allow weeds to grow and go for pro-pollinator planting
The kind of gardens we want to create will radically evolve over the coming decade
From “Brexit” seeds to hanging pots – what to give the green fingered person in your life
Grow them as a shrub or small tree in a lawn, an informal hedge, or even trained against a high wall where their foliage will act as a foil for flowering plants
Most culinary herbs can be grown in pots or tubs while plenty will stay compact enough to grow very happily in a window-box
Sow organic seeds, cut less lawn and let the wild things grow in your garden
Few plants are as charming as this hardy, spring-blooming, native wildflower
Fionnuala Fallon: Preparation put in over coming weeks will be repaid tenfold in future months
Follow the three Ds by using secateurs to remove any dead, diseased or dying wood
You need barrow-loads of intelligence and creativity, a strong back and green fingers
Not much happens in the January garden but it's a good time to find summer inspiration in seed catalogues
This year’s fine crop tackles everything from wartime gardens to a guide to propagation
Trees to plant, gloves to wear, cards to write trowels to dig, seeds to sow and a pad to rest
Fionnuala Fallon: Hardy annuals will happily endure an average cold Irish winter
It's a busy month in the gardening year. Time to tidy the summer pots and start planting for winter greens
Your herbs will be fresh and flavoursome, organically grown and chemical-free
Give yourself a break this spring and opt for perennial veg that will keep giving for years
Spring is on the way and the ground is warming up. It’s time to start planting
You don’t need a glasshouse or polytunnel – a sunny porch will do
The all-important business of seed sowing is just around the corner
With little doing in the winter garden, plot a visit to some of the world’s most beautiful gardens
From seeds to secateurs, some green gift ideas for the keen, and the casual, gardener
‘Paperwork and slow broadband are the most frustrating things about running an SME’
Even a small suburban garden can host 25-30 species of birds in winter
Colour creates an atmosphere of tranquillity as easily as one of excitement and energy
We preview the best of this year’s festival, which kicks off in the Phoenix Park on June 1st
Even the smallest spaces can yield salad, peas, peppers and dahlias both pretty and tasty
Holiday-home gardening is a horticultural challenge so forget the lawn and think pebbles, driftwood and easy plants instead
Raised beds, slip-proof surfaces and ingenious tools help keep elderly gardeners going
February is the time to plant roses – they’re high maintenance but so worth it
Next year’s catalogues are out, and there are lots of interesting new plants to consider growing
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices